

PROPERTY FROM AN OLD HONG KONG COLLECTION
A number of brushpots by Yang Jichu, both bearing his seal mark and with Qianlong reign mark, is preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing. For a brushpot with related composition and similar Yang Jichu seal mark in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Purple Sandy Ware, Hong Kong, 2008, p. 145, pl. 115. Compare also a Qianlong mark and period Yixing stoneware brushpot which is clearly by the hand of Yang Jichu, illustrated ibid., p. 143, pl. 113.
For closely related brushpots by Yang Jichu sold at auction, see one from the collection of Jimmy Sha, sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 27th May 2012, lot 548; another from the Robert H. Blumenfeld collection, sold at Christie's New York, 22nd March 2012, lot 1246; and a third from the Mr and Mrs Gerard Hawthorn collection, sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 28th November 2011, lot 208.